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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Geode vs. Interbase vs. Milvus vs. Newts

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgeode.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemilvus.ioopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.EmbarcaderoOpenNMS Group
Initial release20162002198420192014
Current release1.1, February 2017InterBase 2020, December 20192.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaCC++, GoJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yesnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationInterbase Change Viewsselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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